How do you use lavender?
Lavender is extremely versatile! There are endless ways to use the different parts and products of the plant. It not only smells wonderful but is helpful too! Below are some ways to use lavender:
Some additional ideas are:
- Crafts
- Culinary
- Decorations
- Medicinal/aromatherapy
- Landscape
- Essential Oil
- Pest repelling
- Aroma
- Cleaner/Solvent
- Toiletries/cosmetics
- Gifts
- Bouquets/floral arrangements
- Novelties
Lavender is generally known and loved for its’ smell, sleep and relaxation support, healing aid, cleaning properties and as a culinary star. While there are not a lot of clinical studies on lavender and we can not make medical claims, here are some overviews and information:
- NIH/NCCIH – Lavender Overview
- NIH/NCCIH – Lavender and the Nervous System
- University of Maryland Medical Center – Lavender Overview
- Tisserand – Lavender is not estrogenic
- Abstracts:
- PubMed – The effectiveness of aromatherapy massage using lavender oil as a treatment for infantile colic.
- PubMed – The effect of lavender aromatherapy on cognitive function, emotion, and aggressive behavior of elderly with dementia
- PubMed – The effects of lavender oil inhalation on emotional states, autonomic nervous system, and brain electrical activity
- PubMed – The antimicrobial activity of high-necrodane and other lavender oils on methicillin-sensitive and -resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA and MRSA)
- PubMed – Lavender. Dermatitis.
- PubMed – Lavandula angustifolia Mill. Oil and Its Active Constituent Linalyl Acetate Alleviate Pain and Urinary Residual Sense after Colorectal Cancer Surgery: A Randomised Controlled Trial.
- PubMed – Relaxation effects of lavender aromatherapy improve coronary flow velocity reserve in healthy men evaluated by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography
- Biosynthesis and therapeutic properties of Lavandula essential oil constituents